At the scotlish meet, which went well we saw two shows.

One show in glasgow was excellent, but one in edinburgh didn't go well and demonstrates the thin line between a successful stage show and erh not.

So what was the problem? It wasn't suitable subjects as three from our group went on stage, and these were well practiced subjects. What caused the problem was sound.

No speakers existed on stage, so subjects heard a distrorted echo coming back from the audience, the few nearest to him heard the hypnotists own voice as a double echo, but those at the far end couldnt understand at all.

The result? physcial induction worked, but verbal didn't and isntructions for subjects to wake up went unheaded. Relaxation exercises failed due to sunjects concentrating too hard on what was being said.

The Hypnotist didn't react to this bu turning off his mike when talkignt os subjects which would have worked, or using touch as a signal to the subjects.

So the lesson for stage hypnotists is test the audio on stage as well as from the audience, and also be prepared to adjust your inductions to provide commands without relying upon sound if it is not up to scratch. Also in such enviromonets be prepared for subjects to missunderstand what was said and be ready to intercept subjects who go off and do unexpected things because of what they though you said.